René Magritte Museum

René Magritte Museum (French: Musée René Magritte, Dutch: René Magritte Museum) is a museum in Jette, a municipality in Brussels, Belgium, devoted to the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.[1] The museum is located at 135, rue Esseghem/Esseghemstraat, in the house where Magritte lived and worked for 24 years, between 1930 and 1954.[2]

This article is about the museum in Jette. For the constituent museum of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, see Magritte Museum.
The ground floor of the museum

The ground floor of the house there is an apartment where Magritte and his wife Georgette lived, whereas the first and the second floors display the biographical exposition.[1]

Magritte and his wife moved in 1954 to a bigger apartment in Schaerbeek, which, as they thought, was in better agreement with their social status. The testament of Magritte's wife, however, indicated that the house in Jette is the most important for the biography of Magritte. In 1993, André Garitte, an art collector and a fan of Belgian surrealism, bought the house, restored it, and in 1998, celebrating 100 years of Magritte, the museum was open to the public. In 2009, the museum reopened after an extensive restoration.[3]

Museum of Abstract Art

Since November 2019, a Museum of Abstract Art has opened next to the René Magritte Museum and is linked to it. The two museums can be visited together.

The museum houses mainly Belgian abstract art, a collection of over 750 works, a third of which are on permanent display. The second floor presents the historical avant-garde of the 1920s, with major figures including Victor Servranckx, Georges Vantongerloo, Jozef Peeters and Pierre-Louis Flouquet. René Magritte originally painted in this style and was close to these artists. The first floor and third floor present the second generation of abstracts (from the 50s to the 80s and beyond), both geometric and lyrical (Pierre Alechinsky, Pol Bury, Gaston Bertrand, Jean Rets, Jo Delahaut...).

See also

References
  1. "René Magritte Museum". Museum website. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. "René Magritte Museum toont ongeziene werken van kunstenaar" (in Dutch). De Redactie. 21 February 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  3. Mund, Sabine (2009). "André Garitte: Magritte au quotidien" (PDF). 2009 (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2016.

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